Who is running for Judge, County Court At Law No. 1 (Williamson County, Texas) in 2026?

Judge, County Court at Law No. 1 (Williamson County)

Brandy Hallford is judge of Williamson County Court at Law No. 1²³. According to a county continuing-legal-education speaker bio, she was elected to the court in 2018⁴; her campaign site gives a different account of how she took the bench (see background)⁶. The speaker bio also says she has been licensed to practice law since 1996⁴. Before the bench she was a prosecutor, including Criminal Division Chief at the Williamson County Attorney's Office, and later worked in private practice⁴.

• Judge, County Court at Law No. 1, Williamson County; the county lists her term as ending in 2026²³
• Presides over criminal, protective order, family, civil and Child Protective Services cases, per a county speaker bio⁴
• Licensed to practice law since 1996; prosecutor for Williamson County, Dallas County and the First Open Government Prosecutor for the Texas Attorney General's office; Criminal Division Chief at the Williamson County Attorney's Office; later private practice representing children and parents in CPS cases, adults in criminal matters, juveniles and veterans⁴
• Bachelor of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin; Juris Doctor, St. Mary's School of Law⁴
• 2019 Excellence in Civil Law award from the Williamson County Bar's Women Lawyers Section; Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation⁴
• Two accounts of her 2018 start on the court differ and were not reconciled against an official record. A county continuing-legal-education speaker bio says she was elected to the court in 2018⁴. Her campaign site says that after winning the Republican primary in March 2018 she was appointed Presiding Judge of County Court at Law #1 on June 4, 2018 (her own account)⁶. Community Impact listed her among county officials voted into office in the Nov. 8 election, in an article published Dec. 29, 2022⁵.